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A SHAMAN IS A PERSON REGARDED AS HAVING ACCESS TO, AND INFLUENCE IN, THE WORLD OF BENEVOLENT AND MALEVOLENT SPIRITS. A PERSON THAT CAN EASILY FIND HIMSELF LOST IN DEEP THOUGHTS IN TOUCH WITH HIS SOUL. A TRANCE. A PERSON WITH A MAGNETIC ATTRACTION TO OTHERS AND WHO HAS INFLUENCE ON THE MOOD OF THOSE AROUND HIM. A PERSON SUCH AS DUSTIN DAVIS.For some people it is easy to make contact with strangers. Others prefer to use the modern technologies of social media to meet other people. For photographer Jay Rickard there have been only a few times in his career that he has approached a person in real life to model for him. Chalk it up to social awkwardness but he simply finds it easier to reach out to a potential model online. His meeting with Dustin Davis however was one of those rare moments that lighting struck.Last summer Jay Rickard met Dustin Davis at a friends house. While visiting his friend Jay was captured by the presence of Dustin the first moment he saw him. "Dustin was sitting there on her couch, lost in the creation of one of his remarkable hand crafted silver pieces," Jay recalls. "I was stunned. He had this intensity, a virility and rugged handsomeness mixed with a vulnerability that was so truly unique." For Jay Rickard it was clear. Dustin Davis would be magnetic in front of his camera. Still he didn't talk to Dustin out of fear of rejection. It was their mutual friend who eventually made the first contact.As it turned out Dustin Davis had done some modeling before and was no stranger to performance. Jay and Dustin had a marathon tex conversation discussing ideas and ironing out details for a shoot before finally locking down a day to spend creating images together. "What I endeavored to accomplish was to incorporate as many facets of him as possible into the shoot,"Jay Rickard comments on his work with Dustin Davis. "A series centering on his sterling and gemstone creations, another focusing on his stage work as a male entertainer using several of his most popular costumes and also getting out into nature." Dustin Davis is a real Renaissance man with a Shamanic background which was the reason they eventually ventured outside into the nature. For Jay it was an unique and exciting opportunity to showcase all of Dustin's facets. Dustin Davis continually surprises with his innate ability to exude an earthy sex appeal balanced with charm and wit that is such a unique blend of traits that he really stands out from the crowd. According to Jay Rickard he was so at ease in front of the camera that it was easy to just keep shooting and they spent nearly a full 8 hours doing just that. When they stopped it was due solely to Jay's exhaustion, not because they'd run out of ideas. Which could indicate we might see more of this unique collaboration between Jay Rickard and Dustin Davis –BM-JAY RICKARD | BEAUTIFULMAGDUSTIN DAVIS | BEAUTIFULMAG

WHERE FOR SOME FAMILY ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WERE BROUGHT UP WITH WERE TEDIOUS, JONO COULD NOT GET ENOUGH OF IT. BORN AND RAISED IN LOS ANGELES, JONO ALWAYS HAD AN ARTISTIC SIDE WITH DRAWING, PAINTING OR SOMETHING ELSE. A GOOD CHARACTERISTIC WHEN BEING BORN IN A FAMILY THAT IS A HUGE SUPPORTER OF THE ARTS. WHILE GROWING UP JONO WAS INVOLVED IN COUNTLESS CONTESTS, CLASSES AND SEMINARS AND SIMPLY COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT. TO THIS DAY HE STILL HAS BOOKS OF DRAWINGS OF IDEAS HE ONCE HAD AND STILL HOPE TO REALIZE.Growing up Jono got himself a small point and shoot camera which he used on his friends and himself. Always experimenting with photography and post production manipulations. But it wasn't until after high school that he really got himself hooked on Photoshop. He made it his mission to love and breath the intricate photo retouch program, searched and found many online tutorials and learned the ins and outs all by himself.After Jono tried every single art class in his local community college that he could possible subscribe to, a friend of his suggested to go into photography as a career choice. Already being interested and inspired by photography and video, Jono decided to give it a try and it wasn't for long that he truly fell in love with it. This time he really learned how to use a camera and get the best results from it. He studied the possibilities of using light as a source and slowly developed his own style based on his drawings and inspirations.

Before Jono got involved in photography he did a lot of acrylic painting. He was passionate about painting bodies and the anatomy of the human body. Once photography took over a large part of his life, he did realize that he missed the creative painting part and started to intertwine it with his photography. This stood as base for the creation of his colourful dark series, which complements every part of the subjects body by giving it a beautiful vivid display. The work he did with Walter Delmar is a wonderful example of this unique style, which can only ne described as painting with light.Walter Delmar was born in Sacramento and went to college in San Francisco for Actin & Holistic Health. After that he moved south, to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. Currently he works as a roducer for the web TV show Hey Qween, a chat show with LGBT stars similar to Ellen or Chelsea Handler. But Walter is a creative spirit and does more than just that. He also works as a DJ, he write and acts and performance as a go-go dancer. Walter has acted in various films such as Pornography A Thriller, Benjamin Button and Vampire Boys and will be featuring in the upcoming film The Caretakes of Cook County. Walter Delmar is a creative centipede and the perfect model for Jono's stylistic colorful photography. –BM-JONO | BEAUTIFULMAGWALTER DELMAR | BEAUTIFULMAG

ORANGE COUNTY IS THE THIRD-MOST POPULATED COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA, THE SIXTH-MOST POPULATED COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES AND MORE POPULOUS THAN 21 OF U.S. STATES. INTERESTING FUN FACT. ORANGE COUNTY IS KNOWN FOR OTHER THINGS THAN THAT THOUGH. IT IS KNOWN FOR ITS BEAUTIFUL PACIFIC COASTLINE, WITH BEACHES SUCH AS HUNTINGTON BEACH, LAGUNA BEACH AND NEWPORT BEACH. AND OF COURSE IT IS KNOWN FOR THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, HOME TO THE FIRST DISNEYLAND EVER BUILT.Zooming in we arrive in Irvine, a city developed in the 1960's by the Irving Company and located south-east of Santa Ana and north-east of Newport Beach. The city's mission statement is "to create and maintain a community where people can live, work, and play in an environment that is safe, vibrant, and aesthetically pleasing" and they do it well. So well that for the last decennium Irvine has been high in the top 10 of the best ad safest cities in the United States. Zooming in a bit further we arrive in a residential area that is home to the family Twitchell. A family with four sons, of whom Carson Twitchell is the youngest.Carson Twitchell, born and raised in Orange County, California, has since long exchanged his seemingly idealistic hometown for less safer environment of New York City. Not because he felt the need to explore dangerous adventures, but because it is where his life passion has brought him. As a logical step in his life and career. Carson was raised an athlete, being an excellent soccer player. But life had other plans for him and it wasn't for long Carson gave up his soccer cleats for tap shoes (so to speak) and landed a role in the world famous musical Les Miserables. Because Carson Twitchell is a performer and entertainer in the core of his being.Carson went on to study Music Dance Theatre at Brigham Young University where he toured with his performing group through Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Australia. He also studied Theatre Studies at the University of Utah before heading back to Southern California, Los Angeles to be precise, to pursue musical theatre and modeling. In the summer of 2014, Carson joined the stage actors' union, "Equity" and moved to from LA to NYC to further pursue musical theatre and modeling. Currently signed with the Men's division at MSA Models, Carson is gearing up for the coming season's work, be it fitness to high fashion, or commercial to production fit. Roberto Araujo is back in NYC after being away for year and a half traveling around the world doing shows all over. From California to NY to Texas to Europe and Australia. After his successful first solo exhibit MALEXPOSURE, Roberto has a brand new look for his website where he showcases some of the most recent work, including Academy Award Nominee Michelle Williams, Golden Globe Nominee Alan Cumming among other Broadway and film celebrities. Carson Twitchell is especially excited about his recent shoot with photographer Roberto Araujo. Always eager to create with new artists, Carson jumped at the opportunity to shoot with Roberto, after seeing some of his previous work. Like peanut butter and jelly, it was a match made in heaven! And there is for sure more to come from these two. –BM-ROBERTO ARAUJO | BEAUTIFULMAGCARSON TWITCHELL | BEAUTIFULMAG

SOMETIMES BEAUTY NEEDS TO SPEAK FOR ITSELF. IT DOESN'T NEED MANY WORDS TO BE DESCRIBED. WHETHER IT IS ART, ARCHITECTURE OR PEOPLE. JUST LOOKING AT IT CAN TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY. AND THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO RECOGNIZE WHAT TRUE BEAUTY IS ABOUT.Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour. It's a famous saying with a clear meaning, but it is also a truth. There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14,000 years ago, but, according to myth and legend, the first real settlement didn't happen until 753 BC. We are talking of course of the famous story of Romulus and Remus, the tin brothers raised by a wolf and who are supposed to have stand at the beginning of Roman civilization.No other city in history speaks to the imagination as Rome does. Again, Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither are the legends and historical stories that built the rich history of this cradle of western civilization. That have given Rome the nickname of the Eternal City. One of the most beautiful and most visited cities in the world, Rome still speaks to the imagination of millions, even though the city is far from what it was in its imperial glory days. The Piazza Navona and the Circus Maximus, the Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum, the Villa Borghese and the Forum Romanum. Rome is a collection of monuments and artefacts, real time reminders of a glorious past. And all together they have given us an image of this wonderful city, in which we easily forget that no civilization that ever inhabited Rome ever saw the ancient city as we do.Once Rome was a city of power. The siege of a glorious empire, which, even far from being the biggest empire on earth ever, was the mother of all empires, with an advancement in politics, military strategies and social innovations as was never seen before. Which left traces all over Europe that we can still see today. And so are we crazy when we say that what come from Rome was grounded in beauty. Rooted in artistry and refinement? No, we are not. Antonello Ariele Martone proofs it. And so does Manuel Castellani.Antonello Ariele Martone is a name that already sounds like music to ones ears. Antonello is 35 years old and lives and works in the beautiful city of Rome. He makes a living as graphic designer, video maker and photographer in which character we present him here today. Antonello graduated in architecture after which he started to have interest in graphic design and photography. Today he works closely together with his partner, a photographer known as "photographer of the stars" in Italy and they are active in all field of art, fashion and entertainment.Manuel Casellani is only 19 years old but what a beauty he is. Can he be anything else, being a Roma citizen. He studied computer science and occasionally works as model around Italy. The modeling world opened for him after he participated to the Mister Fotogenia Italy 2014 contest, which he – of course – won. It was a sign for photo artists to start ligning up in order to work with him. Giacomo Prestigiacomo, one of Italy's famous photographers, was one of the first to shoot an editorial with Manuel in the eternal city and obviously also Antonello Ariel Martone is one of those who was able to get this young sucesful model in front of his camera. Sometimes beauty needs to speak for itself, so we won't start describing the excellence in the portraits shot by Antonello. We let you be the judge of that. But let me end by saying that no matter how we see Manuel, either in black and white, on dark background or crisp and clean, he seems to be the personification of Roman beauty. Eternally. –BM-ANTONELLO ARIELE MARTONE | BEAUTIFULMAGMANUEL CASELLANI | BEAUTIFULMAG

I'M SURE YOU HAVE PLAYED THE SAME GAME. LOOKING AT THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU OR IN FRONT OF YOU ON A TRAIN OR ELSEWHERE AND IMAGINING WHO THEY ARE. WHAT THEY ARE. ARE THEY GENTLE AND KIND, OR DOMINANT AND DEMANDING. DO THEY WORK FOR A BANK OR ASSURANCE COMPANY, IN MARKETING OR IN A SHOP? AND WHAT WOULD THEY BE LIKE IN THE BEDROOM…Looking at people, observing them, often gives you a sense of who or what they are. You create an image in your head, which could proof to be completely wrong when you get to know them better. But there are always those you like to play you. To pretend something they are not. Or worse, to pretend to be someone who pretends to be someone else. When seeing HotRod in public you don't really know how to respond to him. He has that typical bad boy look that makes you want to rip off your clothes or turn and run away all at the same time. Then, when you get to know him better, he actually turns out to be a really nice guy. Innocent, humble. But then, when you really get to know him, as very few get to know him, you realize that the real HotRod is demanding and commanding. And you are right back at that double feeling you had before.Ever since he was young HotRod has been interested in many things. If you'd ask him what he would like to be when you would have grown up, one day he'd say lawyer, the other day pastry chef. But no matter the options he could choose from, one thing was clear for him. He wanted to be his own boss. It didn't turn out to be like that at first though. HotRod ended up working in security, which basically meant sitting behind a desk for long hours with not much to do. It wasn't enough for HotRod. He needed action. And so he decided to turn things around and choose a career direction that is as far removed as a lawyer from a pastry chef. HotRod became a porn actor.Barely 8 years after his bold decision HotRod is a reference in the gay adult entertainment industry. If not for his talent, than for sure for the equipment he so generously took his performers name from. Whatever you can say from HotRod, you can't say he is small. His decision to change careers - even if it was the curiosity and the need for action, any kind of action - paid off. But HotRod is capable of more than just displaying his sexual fantasies on video. He is also an excellent mainstream model as he proofs in his collaboration with Seth London.Though Seth London does not favourite one model over the other, his portfolio holds many men of color. HotRod is a wonderful addition to it. Stylish, almost dreamy, in some portraits, tempting and seductive in others. He proofs that he doesn't need to flaunt to be a real head turner. The look in his eyes, his full lips that can be serious and unexpected turn into a disarming generous smile, his well build, muscled body and his professional attitude. All elements that show that HotRod is a professional entertainer who knows what he does. I bet by now if you have chosen the turn around and run away option, you wish you hadn't. –BM-HOTROD | BEAUTIFULMAGSETH LONDON | BEAUTIFULMAG